To run as an app bundle, since there is no global environment settings, you need to put the license file in /Applications/freesurfer folder. Then you should be able to load data.

On Jan 3, 2025, at 12:47 AM, Tietze, Anna <anna.tietze@charite.de> wrote:

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Yes, I’ve tried that as well. Freeview opens as an app bundle, but it crashes when I load a file. Interestingly, this is inconsistent—sometimes I can load a file without any issues, but most of the time, it crashes in the same way.
I’ve this problem on two different Macs:
  • System 1: macOS Sonoma 14.5 with FreeSurfer 7.3.2.
  • System 2: macOS Sonoma 14.7.1 with FreeSurfer 7.4.0.

 

From: <freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> on behalf of "Wang, Ruopeng" <RWANG4@mgh.harvard.edu>
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Date: Thursday, 2. January 2025 at 19:04
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Subject: [ext] Re: [Freesurfer] Freeview crash

 

Have you tried running freeview as an app bundle? Or can you try running freeview directly from the binary location? Like this:

 

$FREESURFER_HOME/Freeview.app/Contents/MacOS/freeview 


On Jan 2, 2025, at 7:14 AM, Tietze, Anna <anna.tietze@charite.de> wrote:

 

 

Hi,

 

When I want to open files with freeview, it crashes immediately. I tried my own recon-all output and the bert dataset. Can you help me?

 

Operating system: Mac, Sonoma 14.7.1
Fressurfer version 7.4.0
XQuatz 2.8.5
licence.txt located in: /Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0/license.txt (can be read, as recon-all works)
environment is set by FREESURFER_HOME=/Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0 and source $FREESURFER_HOME/SetUpFreeSurfer.sh

 

When I run the command freeview, the following message is given:
/Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0/bin/freeview: line 2:  6615 Segmentation fault: 11  $FREESURFER_HOME/Freeview.app/Contents/MacOS/freeview "$@"

 

Or trying to open a file:
freeview -v /Users/annatietze/Documents/freesurfer/freesurfer_subjects/nini_ra/mri/orig/001.mgz 
/Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0/bin/freeview: line 2:  6765 Segmentation fault: 11  $FREESURFER_HOME/Freeview.app/Contents/MacOS/freeview "$@"

 

freeview -v /Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0/subjects/bert/mri/orig/001.mgz 
/Applications/freesurfer/7.4.0/bin/freeview: line 2:  6799 Segmentation fault: 11  $FREESURFER_HOME/Freeview.app/Contents/MacOS/freeview "$@"

 

Attached is a detailed error report.

 

What did I overlook?? Thank you so much for help!

 

Best, Anna
<problem report freeview.rtf> 
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